anaheim-gazette 1914-10-15

STATE TAXES IN 1910, $7,279,776 (Under Gillett's Republican Administration) STATE TAXES IN 1914, $14.908,900 (Under Johnson's Progressive Administration) INCREASE, $7,629,124 As an oratorical automaton Governor Hiram Johnson stands without a peer. He is like a phonograph with only one record which persistently grinds out the same time-worn tune whenever it is wound up. The governor's speech, which he carefully prepared at the opening of the campaign, was rather interesting at the beginning, as it exploited the wonderful things accomplished by the progressives during the past two years, but it has been shot so full of holes and disproved by such an array of historical facts and public records, that his reiteration of the same old false statements is getting on the nerves even of his staunch supporters. Governor Johnson started his campaign by claiming credit for granting suffrage to women, for smashing the Southern Pacific machine, for Constitutional Amendment No. 1, separating state from local taxes, for the primary election law, for the child labor law, for the pure food law, for the race track gambling law, for the state highway, for the juvenile court, and for numerous other laws which came into being before he became a factor in California politics. When he came to Anaheim, a couple of weeks ago every man in his audience, knowing that these claims had been proven false by the cold, hard, indisputable records, expected him to say something new, but when he came to speak he torched yet to run, the cost to the taxpayers was $36,452,227, and yet Holy Hi has the effrontery to stand before an audience and prate of his economical administration. Governor Johnson has personally cost the taxpayers of California more than any other executive in the state's history. Since he assumed office in 1911 he has received from the state for his own personal and family uses, in three years and five months, $119,743.28, and $22,583.30 additional will be available for similar purposes during the remaining few months of his term. In no other state in the Union, regardless of its population, has a governor been paid so much for his job. In addition to $119,743.38 made available for Johnson's personal and family uses since 1911, the maintenance of the executive office and the servants of the governor's house, has cost the taxpayers $49,699.90, bringing the total during the Johnson administration to $169,413. Additional sums of $22,583.30, which Johnson will get from the state between now and the time he retires from office will bring a total which he will have received from the state of California of $191,996.30. These figures are matters of public record and are indisputable. Deviate from your stereotyped speech long enough Governor Johnson tells you to speak when you see people." The famous is treated as "His refusal terfere with it is also disclosing Johnn to swear ally senator, yet in the La Faye moment of plight itself to gassed in a body son forswore a complete chop politees. No launched and dictive attack fighting for ram Johnson was a disease." Everybody on Johnson prehensive ephemeral "By building he has substitut for social service derful forward corporation fo" "Like one faith and vile disinterested by the rags greeds are c election law, for the child labor law, for the pure food law, for the race track gambling law, for the state highway, for the juvenile court, and for numerous other laws which came into being before he became a factor in California politics. When he came to Anaheim, a couple of weeks ago every man in his audience, knowing that these claims had been proven false by the cold, hard, indisputable records, expected him to say something new, but when he arose to speak he touched the spring, set his automatic voice to going and rolled forth the same old story, claiming credit for all the good things that had been accomplished in California during the past decade, pausing occasionally in his stereotyped story to snap and snarl at the "poison press," and villify all persons who have had the temerity to point out the falsity of his statements. His little phonographic record reeled off the oft-told story that he, Governor Johnson, was responsible for the equal suffrage act, notwithstanding all his hearers knew that he was opposed to the measure, and voted against it; that he, Governor Johnson, was responsible for the direct primary law, although every person in his audience knew he, himself, was nominated for governor under that law; that he, Governor Johnson, was responsible for the anti-railroad pass bill, notwithstanding every man in his audience knew that this law, which smashed the Southern Pacific machine was passed by a republican legislature; that he, Governor Johnson, was responsible for the workmen's compensation act, which was introduced and engineered through the legislature by Senator Boynton, a stalwart republican; that he, Governor Johnson, was responsible for the eight-hour law for women, which was worked through by Thomas G. Griffin, a democrat. These and many other laws, placed on the statute books before he was ever heard of in political life, Governor Johnson mentioned as triumphs of his administration. He evidently mistook his auditors for dolls who did not keep pace with the march of events in California. The governor also touches on the financial question in his stereotyped speeches. He makes the statement that the ratio of increase in expenditures during his administration was lower than under previous governors. This statement has also been proven false by official figures but he continues to cost the taxpayers $49,699.90, bringing the total during the Johnson administration to $169,413. Additional sums of $22,583.30, which Johnson will get from the state between now and the time he retires from office will bring a total which he will have received from the state of California of $191,996.30. These figures are matters of public record and are indisputable. Deviate from your stereotyped speech long enough, Governor Johnson, to tell the anxious taxpayers what you did with that surplus of $8,000,000. People who keep abreast of discussions of politics in this state are calling attention to an article in Everybody's Magazine for October, entitled "What about Hiram Johnson of California." The article is by George Creel, the noted magazine writer and progressive and handles governor Johnson, to say the least, without gloves. Creel, writing from the standpoint of an dispassionate investigator, says a good many thinks about Johnson that people of California have been thinking for some time past, and says them pertinently, unequivocally and directly. The article has made a pronounced sensation for its caustic handling of Johnson and has of course brought forth heated defenses from the progressive press. For the benefit of readers of this paper who have not seen the magazine, and who desire to form their own conclusions irrespective of partisan prejudices, the following extracts from Creel's article are submitted. Speaking of Governor Johnson's blanket claims on beneficial laws in California as compared with the true facts, Creel says: "At the very outset, one is met by utter inability to square Governor Johnson's claim of entire credit for all achievement with the facts of political history. Aside from his occupancy of the governor's chair during the period of change, his leadership of the forward movement in California has no base in service or devotion * * * * Throughout the years when men risked political lives and business futures in the dogged assault on entrenched corruption, one looks in vain for mention of Hiram W. Johnson's name. The dark times of struggle, martyrdom, and suffering know him not. Nor does research develop that his final inclusion in the These express smiling salutes ticles of feminist queer articles the heading o ernor's residen The governor also touches on the financial question in his stereotyped speeches. He makes the statement that the ratio of increase in expenditures during his administration was lower than under previous governors. This statement has also been proven false by official figures but he continues to reiterate it with parrot-like persistence. Every voter in this commonwealth knows that governor Johnson is the most expensive luxury the people of California ever invested in, and it is to be hoped the governor has confidence enough in the people to believe they are capable of understanding the value of figures when they read them but he still brazenly harps on the economy of his administration. The facts and figures, which Governor Johnson has never denied or attempted to explain away, are that the tax levy for 1914, for maintenance of the state government was $14,908,900. In 1910, under Governor Gillett, the tax levy was $7,279,776. Here is a difference of $7,629,130, or approximately on increase of 105 per cent. Stand up, Governor Johnson, and explain why it cost the people of California nearly eight million dollars more in one year to run their state government under your reform administration than it did under governor Gillette four year previously. Rise up, governor, and tell the voters what you gave them in exchange for this heavy tax that was levied upon them. During Governor Pardee's four year term of office the expenditures for the state government totalled $18,855,142. During Governor Gillett's four years the total was $24,776,077. Under Governor Johnson, with several months capacity of the governor's chair during the period of change, his leadership of the forward movement in California has no base in service or devotion. Throughout the years when men risked political lives and business futures in the dogged assault on entrenched corruption, one looks in vain for mention of Hiram W. Johnson's name. The dark times of struggle, martyrdom, and suffering knew him not. Nor does research develop that his final inclusion in the forward movement was due to any intense conviction or passion of protest." After speaking of what he terms Johnson's "accidental quality" in getting into the lime light, Creel continues: "In the beginning he concentrated on the usual Southern Pacific attack, but as the campaign progressed he gained gib familiarity with the Initiative, Referendum, and Recall. One can not read his speeches in those days, however, without feeling that the deeper meanings of democracy were a sealed book to him—sealed alike by his ignorance and his prejudice. Never at any time a Peter the Hermit or an Ossawatomie Brown, but always the full paunched lawyer with the fishy eye of calculation." "Through it all, Hiram Johnson is seen alternating hobnails with rubber heels. That which was inevitable received his leonine approval, and that which was debatable found him afflicted with lockjaw. As a consequence he was not embarrassed by deats nor yet debarred from taking full credit for victory—the oldest and safest political trick in the world." "True to type, he hated equal suffrage, and because divided public sentiment made it safe for him to do so, he spoke no word for it to the legislature nor mentioned it in a single ANAHEIM GAZETTE speech when the amendment went to the people." Creeel finds little of sincerity in Johnson's pose or conduct. On this point he says: "He tries hard for the Roosevelt pose, but a sedentary habit precludes the physical boisterousness that enables Roosevelt to secure effects of interest and enthusiasm, and the result is a public attitude like that of the lord of the manor mingling with the tenantry. At many turns he is seen to prefer subordinates to associates, and his most obvious characteristics would seem to be a colossal vanity that feeds on grossest flatteries, and envies that consume him like a fever." The famous betrayal of La Follette is treated as follows: "His refusal to let pledged faith interfere with personal aggrandizement is also disclosed in the La Follette incident. Johnson was among the first to swear allegiance to the Wisconsin senator, yet when the Roosevelt men in the La Follette camp, choosing a moment of physical collapse that lent itself to ghastly exaggeration, deserted in a body to Roosevelt, Hiram Johnson forswore himself and telegraphed a complete change of orders to his appointees. Not content with this, he launched and led the brutal and vindictive attack on the man who was fighting for progressivism when Hiram Johnson did not know whether is was a disease or toothwash." Everybody's concludes this article on Johnson with the following comprehensive epitome. "By building up a political machine he has substituted personal service for social service, personal loyalty for social loyalty, and made of the wonderful forward movement an air-tight corporation for his own selfish ends." "Like one speck of rot, his lack of faith and vision, his incapacity for disinterested effort, are being absorbed by the rank and file, and petty greeds are crowding out all warmth" HIRAM JOHNSON'S MACHINE METHODS Legislates State Bank Commissioner Out of Office, Fills Vacancy With One of His Supporters The state superintendent of banks holds office "at the pleasure of the governor." Heroin lies a story which, if told in an understandable way, will at least be one challenge of Governor Johnson's statement that the people cannot point to a single piece of legislation during his term of office that is bad. On page 7 of the statutes of 1911 to the amendment of Section 120: "An Act to Define and regulate the Business of Banking," known as the bank act, approved March 1, 1909, which acts found on page 86 of the statutes of 1909. Section 120, page 109, there is ample reason to believe that Governor Johnson deliberately caused a change in the reading of the act in order to create a position for a political backer and friend. Alden Anderson was lieutenant-governor in Governor Pardee's administration. He was appointed by Governor Pardee as superintendent of banks. He was, and is, a practical banker. Section 120 of the banking law as passed in 1909, stated specifically that "no person shall be appointed superintendent of banks who has not had practical banking experience." This section also specified that the superintendent of banks "shall hold his office for a term of four years." But Alden Anderson ran for governor against Hiram Johnson. Johnson wanted to get him out of the office of superintendent of banks. Johnson also wanted his friend Williams, then state treasurer, to get a better job, as the salary as state treasurer was $5000 and the salary of superintendent of banks, $10,000. But Williams had no banking experience, and under the act of 1909, was not eligible. Consequently, Johnson's legislature in 1911 amended Section 120. Omitting all qualifications for the office, and providing that "he shall be appointed by the governor, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the governor." BUSINESS CARDS J. W. TRUXAW, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office Hours 11 to 12 A.M.; 2 to 4 P.M.; 7 to 8 P.M. Suite 1-2-3 Nagel Building Corner Center and Claudina Streets ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA Office Phone | Residence 121 Kroeger 341-J Home Phone 2093 NIGHT CALLS FROM RESIDENCE F. C. SPENCER ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Notary Public Odd Follows' Block, Center Street anaheim, Cal. J. JANSS, M. D. Physician & Surgeon 523 W. Center St., anaheim Office Hours, 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 P.M. Both Phones Carl Simmons Sunset Phone 225R4 Sunset 175R1 SIMMONS & BAXTER Contractors Cement Pipe Concrete Work Gravel for Sale anaheim, Cal. Main yards 3 miles east of anaheim, R. D. No. 3. WE SELL BLUE SUMMIT LIME because this product goes the farthest in brick-laying and other building BY building up a political machine he has substituted personal service for social service, personal loyalty for social loyalty, and made of the wonderful forward movement an air-tight corporation for his own selfish ends. "Like one speck of rot, his lack of faith and vision, his incapacity for disinterested effort, are being absorbed by the rank and file, and petty greeds are crowding out all warmth and breadth and brotherhood. Mass progress has been hobbled—mass intelligence repressed—mass development set back. "This is the curse of the Johnson type, and its menace." JOHNSON SOAKS COMMON PEOPLE Draws $109,631.31 From State Treasury for Personal Account According to the records preserved in the office of State Controller John S. Chambers, the administration of Governor Hiram S. Johnson has been the most expensive in the history of California. The expenditures of Governor James N. Gillett the predecessor of Johnson totalled $82,116.24 during the full course of his four years term. Compared with these figures, the figures of a Governor whose aim was economy with the public money, the expenditures of Governor Johnson are colossal. Since assuming the gubernatorial duties in January, 1911, Johnson has drawn from the State Treasury the enormous sum of $109,631.31 for his personal uses. Of this vast sum, $3200 represents the cost of an electric automobile. $10,000 the refurnishing of the gubernatorial residence, $37,500 the Governor's salary—but a bundle of cashed warrants are all the State Controller can show the people of California for the balance of $58,931.31 drawn from the treasury by Governor Johnson and expended for so-called household and secret service expenses. These expenditures include bills for smelling salts, powder puffs and articles of feminine lingerie—somewhat queer articles to be itemized under the heading of "supplies for the Governor's residence"—and large amounts Why did they remove the qualifications of the amendment? Any school child can answer the question, inasmuch as Williams' appointment followed immediately upon the passing of the amendment. Why was the tenure of office changed from four years to the "pleasure of the governor?" Simply that Johnson was making every effort to build up a machine that would be invulnerable. As many appointees offices as possible were created; every subordinate, where possible, was made subject to removal by the governor, in order that, if the subordinate should become sick of the Bull Moose outfit and try to get back into a legitimate party, his official head might easily be cut off, and the official left without a job. This is what the Bull Moose higher-ups call statesmanship. A. A. De Ligne, Hiram Johnson's law partner, was appointed attorney for the superintendent of banks, with a salary of $4800 per year. In addition to this position, De Ligne acted as attorney for defunct state banks, receiving additional compensation for this work. No one knows what this additional compensation amounts to except De Ligne and Governor Johnson, who were law partners. When Williams took charge of the office, five banks were in liquidation. Three have since been added. The fourth annual report of the superintendent of banks shows that Williams paid out in attorney's fees in fifteen months for these five banks, the sum of $16,140.71. In the first nineteen months after Williams took office, he paid out in attorney's fees for these eight banks, the astonishing sum of $41,548.20, which money went to De Ligne, Johnson's law partner, and their legal friends. Anderson, the republican who was removed by Johnson, paid out $2300 in fifteen months. As soon as Hiram Johnson's son was admitted to the bar, he became an attorney for these defunct banks, and has been living at this political counter ever since. Will Hiram explain that the amendment which he caused to have railroaded through the legislature in relation to the banking law, was in the interests of the peo- WE SELL BLUE SUMMIT LIME because this product goes the farthest in brick-laying and other building uses, and is very uniform. GIBBS LUMBER We Close Saturday Noon Car Lots Our Specialty Sunset {20 362 Home—503 City Meat Market EVERYTHING SANITARY We Carry the Choicest of Fresh Meats, Hams and Smoked Meats Pickled Olives, Butter and Cheese Sanitary Market Schneider Bros., Props. Commercial Hotel FIRST-CLASS DINING ROOM AND BAR Handsomely Furnished Rooms Everything neat and clean A home for the Travelling Public A trial will convince JOHN ZIEGLER, Manager progressive committee as "novel and popular." It is novel, at least, con- FIRST-CLASS DINING ROOM AND BAR Handsomely Furnished Rooms Everything neat and clean A home for the Travelling Public trial will convince JOHN ZIEGLER, Manager progressive committee as "novel and popular." It is novel, at least, consisting in the request for $10 by return mail in return for ten campaign buttons each "bearing a real miniature photograph of Gov. Johnson" and a receipt for $1 on the back. In order to make no mistake the card of ten buttons is mailed to the notaries together with the request for the coin and thanks in advance. The small army of men engaged in building state wharves on the San Francisco water front were let off with a contribution of $1 each for one button. But a list, "Indexed," if you please, is kept at headquarters, called rather dubiously the "roll of honor," so that no progressive jobholder can afford to be without one. 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